Storyteller Quotes · Page 20

...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what…

— Libba Bray

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about…

— Regina Doman

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

— Elie Wiesel

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

For some people, I got away with something. And you know what? That's a fair thing to say, for them. I'm not…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want…

— Spike Lee

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it.…

— Erin Morgenstern

Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember - my dad is also an actor and a…

— Seth Numrich

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

— John Milius

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

— Christine Vachon

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

— Angelique Kidjo

I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on…

— Athol Fugard

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories.…

— Maeve Binchy

It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers…

— Edwidge Danticat

“You're a storyteller, Alice Edevane," Ben had told her late one afternoon, as the river tripped coolly by and the pigeons came…

— Kate Morton

I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the…

— John Buffalo Mailer

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a…

— Maeve Binchy

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

— Robert McKee

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

— Bruce Boxleitner

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

— Edwidge Danticat

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

— Oliver Stone